The South Australian Government said a failure of companies to meet selection criteria means a third round of applications for funds under the South-East Forestry Partnerships Program will open in March. Source: ABC News Forests Minister Leon Bignell said four south-east timber compan

Graeme Hart’s pulp and paper mill in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand is now in the hands of a Japanese company. Source: Sun Live Oji Holding purchased the Hart-owned Carter Holt Harvey in April 2014 for NZ$1.037 billion. The pulp and paper mill sold for just over a NZ$1

The Arizona Republic recently ran several stories about efforts to thin forests in northern Arizona to protect the area from the damage, and the monetary and human cost, of wildfires. Source:AZCentral The efforts described are commendable and necessary. Removing dead wood, dry brush a

The Engineered Wood Association in the US has launched a free online Wall Line Bracing Calculator that eases the burden of interpreting wall bracing requirements by streamlining the process and bringing designers, builders and building departments onto the same page. Source: Building

Helicopters have started salvaging some of the native timber blown over by Cyclone Ita on the West Coast of New Zealand in April. Source: 3News The storm destroyed thousands of hectares of forest, and over the summer hundreds of valuable rimu logs are being recovered from bush land ne

Tasmania’s honey producers are forking out tens of thousands of dollars to maintain access roads into beekeeping areas as the state’s forestry industry contracts. Source: Lexis Nexus Apiarists said they hoped the recovery of the timber industry would provide access to new

A unique piece of south-west Victoria’s history will slowly draw to a close with Smith’s Sawmill at Naringal winding back its operations. Source: The Age The small mill has been run by the Smith family since the end of World War II and has employed two generations of the f

A third anti-logging protester has been arrested in a Western Australian forest in less than a month. Logging preparations in part of Helms Forest near Nannup in the South West were stopped when Claire Anderson, 23, sat on a treetop platform that was tied to machinery. Source: ABC New

It is perhaps the world’s most famous environmental parable. A settler on Easter Island stood beside the island’s last tree. He or she looked around the treeless horizon, every one of those trees removed by man, and chopped it down anyway. Sources: The Australian, The Times Afterwards